All religions and philosophies have come unstuck on the problem of creation. Science has gotten rid of it by removing God the Creator, who had become unnecessary. Buddhism has done so by eliminating the very idea of a beginning.
Rosel Cohn was a Jewish classmate of ours, but I did not really connect her with ‘the Jews’. Those Jews were and remained something mysteriously menacing and anonymous. They were not the sum of all Jewish individuals, who included yourself or old Herr Lewy: they were an evil power, something with the attributes of a spook. One could not see it, but it was there, an active force for evil.
The lesson: noncustomers tend to offer far more insight into how to unlock and grow a blue ocean than do relatively content existing customers.
Big forest fires aren't caused by big sparks. Lots of individual trees have to catch fire and carry the flames.
